The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, April 10, 1997, Image 1

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I VOIt.96 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 135
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gets majority
of RHA vote
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By Sarah Baker
Staff Reporter
The EXCEL party hopes to bring new “integrity and
l unity” to residence hall students next year after winning
~ the Residence Hall Association elections Wednesday. ^
EXCEL took55 per
cent of the vote, with the
opposing IMPACT party
taking 45 percent of the
vote. A total of 1,056
residence hall students
voted, which equaled 25
percent of the residents
living in the halls;
Elections were held
in eight of the residence
which has elections in the
fall. Both Neihardt and
Abel residence halls ran
out of ballots, but election
workers hurried to pho
tocopy more before the
election was over.
Voter turnout, how
ever, was still lower than
last yeas. In 1996,1,151,
or 36 percent, of die resi
dents voted in RHA elec
tions.
RHA Election Com
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said she felt the lower turnout rate was because of less
campaigning by the parties.
“The EXCEL party did some campaigning, but the
IMPACT party didn’t do any,” Carlson said. “I am happy
with the number of students that did go out and vote, but
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WAITER ECHO-HAWK, senior staff attorney for the Native American Rights Fund,
spoke at the Lied Center for Performing Arts Wednesday afternoon. Echo-Hawk
helped lead the campaign to obtain the passage of the Native American Grave
Protection and Repatriation Act.
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The people that
* I talked to were
.. confident with
our party's
experience and
leadership
skills. T/iey
reaZZy believed
in us."
Ben Wallace
RHA president-elect
Indigenous
people need
more rights,
activist says
By Kimberiy Swartz
Staff Reporter
Throughout Walter Echo-Hawk’s life
time, he has seen the effects of stereotypes,
economic exploitation and racism against in
digenous people.
Echo-Hawk, an American Indian activ
ist, lobbyist, tribal judge and attorney, gave a
speech entitled “Indigenous vs.
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Relationships” Wednesday at the Lied Cen
ter for Performing Arts.
Echo-Hawk was the final E.N. Thomp
son Forum speaker this semester.
Indigenous people are non-European
groups, Ecfto-Hawk said, who existed before
Europeans colonized the land. They makeup
6 percent of the world’s population and are
found in 72 different countries.
Indigenous people are not in a position
of political dominance and have no desire to
assimilate into the culture that surrounds
them, Echo-Hawk said.
“Discrimination turns native people into
aliens and strangers in their own lands,” he
said.
Each group is culturally distinct and wants
the right to decide its own destiny, Echo
Hawk said.
“These people can’t be found on any map ---
because they are nations within nations,” he
said.
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Black student scholars honored
as university ‘ambassadors’
Full tuition will be paid
for students showing
academic excellence and
community leadership.
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By Chad Lorenz
Senior News Editor
The University of Nebraska-Lin
cpln considers scholarship funds for
black students money well-spent, UNL
officials said.
Jim Smith, director of the Office of
Multi-Cultural Affairs, said the black
students at UNL were showing they
could be leaders as well as scholars.
“You’ve done something a lot of
students don’t do,” Smith told eight
scholarship recipients Wednesday. “It’s *
your ambassadorship that shows you
care about the university.”
Black scholarship winners for the
1996-97 school year gathered at the
Culture Center on Wednesday for Pic
ture Day.
Cynthia Gooch, educational spe
cialist for the multi-cultural affairs of
fice, said she will display their photo
graphs on the walls of her office to
motivate younger minority students to
aim for academic excellence.
“So often when you hear‘scholar
ship’ with ‘African-American,’ people
tend to think of athletics,” she said.
“This will show other students that they
can be successful academically.”
Smith said the top scholarships of
fered to black students were seven full
tuition Davis Scholarships. Recipients
are required to show academic excel
lence and leadership in the community,
he said.
Black students also were offered
scholarships through the Larson,
Gupta, David and Schorr scholarship
funds, which vary from $1,000 to full
payment for students’ housing.
Four Schorr scholarships were
awarded to black students in the Teach
ers College, Smith said. As the number
of minority students increases, schools
will need more black teachers, he said.
Smith said he urged students not to
see their scholarships as gifts, but as
something the students should return
to the university by leading others and
setting examples.
“Somebody’s invested in you, start
investing back,” he said.
“In our day, more well-rounded,
more voluntary spirit is needed so our
communities become wealthier and
safer.”